Witnesses of local events connected to WWII | Memory of Nations

Jitka Bernardyová in her youth

Jitka Bernardyová

* 1933

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Miroslav Bernat in the army

Private First Class (ret.) Miroslav Bernat

* 1924 †︎ 2024

National minorities, The national, ethnic or religious minorities in Poland, Repatriated, Member of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (General Svoboda's army), Participant in antifascist resistance and 5 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia and 4 more anniversaries

Vladimír Bernát, a portrait

Vladimír Bernát

* 1927 †︎ 2020

Forced labour during the WW2, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W and 1 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 12.1.1945 - 13.2.1945 Vistula–Oder Offensive, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Helmut Bernert as a child in Opava

Helmut Bernert

* 1935 †︎ 2025

National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Germany

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jiří Berounský in 2022

Ing. Jiří Berounský

* 1932

Underage political prisoners, Journalist, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Radio Free Europe, Boy Scouts and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Josef Bezchleba in reserve. Training in Terezín 1963

Josef Bezchleba

* 1930 †︎ 2024

Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Industrial settler in border region in 60', Friars and 3 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 6 more anniversaries

before the transport to Auschwitz

Erika Bezdíčková

* 1931 †︎ 2020

Holocaust, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp and 2 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, Death marches 1944-1945 and 7 more anniversaries

Věra, Prague, late 1940s

PhDr. Věra Bezecná

* 1922

National minorities, Déclassé, Repatriated, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 8. 9. 1948 – Funeral of President Edvard Beneš, 12. 3. 1938 - "Anschluss" of Austria

Josef Bialas, Wehrmacht military book, Breslau (Wroclaw), January 1945

Josef Bialas

* 1927 †︎ 2025

Wehrmacht soldier, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, March 1945 - the occupation of Upper Silesia by the Soviet army, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, September 1939- occupation of the entire Upper Silesia by Germany

Miloslava Bičíková in the 1950s. All children were musically gifted after their father, František

Miloslava Bičíková

* 1942

Relatives of important personalities, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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